Online-native and gleefully opinionated — release-week takes from the smartest voice in the group chat. No scores, all attitude.
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Michael McDonald, Lil Yachty, & David Hungate +2 more
July 11, 2026
Nobody asked for this and everyone was right to worry. Then "Minute Maid" hits the second chorus and suddenly you're on a yacht that's also somehow in your therapist's waiting room, and it *works*. The supergroup curse ends here.
Mette Lindberg, Keith Moon, & Kate Pierson +1 more
July 3, 2026
I came for the novelty of Moon + Pierson + Lindberg on a 60s-electronic pastiche and stayed because 'Asteroid Joyride' absolutely slaps. Yeah, supergroups are cursed, but this one got cosmic and forgot to blink. The shoulder dance was real.
Paul McCartney, James McCartney, & David Gilmour +3 more
June 30, 2026
Everyone said this was a vanity project—five platinum-resume names playing bar-circuit gigs. Then you hear James and Violet trading leads on 'Open Mic Energy' and realize: the nepotism is actually the point.
I braced for the supergroup curse but these guys actually understand what made them essential in the first place: knowing when to step back. The tambourine work alone should quiet every skeptic, but it won't.
I braced for disaster—supergroup death-wish, right?—but "Velveeta Fade" genuinely slaps, and watching these three argue over a drum break via production is the most fun I've had with ego this year.
I listened waiting for one moment of actual music. Instead: four separate demos playing over each other, screaming about royalties, a drum solo that's literally just sirens. It's the most honest thing any of them has ever made.
Dave Matthews, Miles Davis, & John Coltrane +2 more
June 27, 2026
The supergroup curse is real, but this one sidesteps it by refusing to play it safe—three minutes in, they're already arguing about which tradition to demolish next. You can feel them having more fun than is probably allowed.
Johnny Marr, Tom Waits, & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart +4 more
June 25, 2026
Nobody needed this to work but it does—three tracks in you realize they're not here to prove anything, just play together, and that's somehow the most punk move of the year.
I went in cynical—supergroups are usually ego autopsies. Instead I got three arguments happening at once, all of them right, and somehow "Peggy Sue Gets Liquidized" became my favorite song about Texan chaos. The curse is broken.
Bruce Dickinson, Geddy Lee, & Brann Dailor +2 more
June 25, 2026
Everyone said the supergroup curse was real until track three, when Geddy's bass line walks in like he's been waiting forty years to play this exact song with these exact people. Suddenly the hype doesn't feel stupid anymore.